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Default Reparing Leak in Tire Side Wall
On 11/4/2014 3:17 PM, wrote:
I had a friend who had a puncture in his tire sidewall. No one would fix it, until he found a tire shop that would fix it for cash.

It lasted about 9 months, until on a trip between San Diego and the Bay Area it blew on Interstate 5 in the central valley of California. The Expedition caught the shoulder and rolled, killing him, paralyzing one of his passengers, and seriously injuring the other four.


A long time ago I did some tire cord R&D.
We had a test where tires were run and load and speed increased until
catastrophic failure. I've seen pictures of these tires before failure
and they were frightening in how much they deformed and flexed. You
don't want to run your tires any where near the max or have a defective
tire running at high speed.
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